The Whitworth Office of Community Engagement is charged with helping coordinate
and provide resources for existing activities in the Spokane area in which Whitworth faculty,
staff, and students are engaged. The mission
is to provide a clearing house for communicating,
both internally and externally, information regarding Whitworth's community-engagement activities. The office is also charged with
generating new ideas as well as with seeking additional funding for such
efforts.

Vision:

The Whitworth Office of Community Engagement aspires to be known
on ad off campus as an effective tool for promoting linkage
between Whitworth faculty and staff and the Spokane community.

Key Result Areas:

Communications: Goal is to improve both internal and external communication of current activities and initiatives
by Whitworth faculty and staff in the Spokane
area

Provide resources for existing areas: Goal is to improve the ways
in which the School of Business, School of Education, Center
for Service Learning, and Weyerhaeuser Center for Christian
Faith and Learning are provided with resources and encouraged in their respective
efforts to achieve community engagement

Action Steps:

1) Meet on a monthly basis for purpose of clarifying goals.
2) Pursue grant funding in specific areas related to community
engagement.

Development of New Partners: Goal is to seek new partners
in the community to work more collaboratively in pursuit of mutual
ends

Action Steps:

1) Establish Whitworth's existing partners.
2) Identify two to three new partners per year to pursue.

Enhancing Connection to Academics: Goal is to develop
a stronger connection to academic departments and the office of
academic affairs in order to ensure quality

Action Steps:

1) Promote the minor in community engagement.
2) Examine faculty reward system and develop a strategy for linking
faculty involvement with community with faculty rewards.
3) Look for ways to promote scholarship around community engagement.